Description and Reader Names: Join us for a reading and book signing with award-winning author Abby Mendelson. He will be reading from his most recent novel, Oakland Quartet. Book-signing will follow. Copies will be available for purchase.

Versatile, award-winning writer Abby Mendelson is the author of three novels, Paradise Boys, Scotch and Oranges, and The Oakland Quartet, as well as two collections of stories, Ghost Dancer and End of the Road. In addition, he wrote the number-one best-selling The Pittsburgh Steelers: The Official History, now in a fourth, revised edition; The Pittsburgh Steelers: Yesterday and Today; Pittsburgh: A Place in Time, a collection of his writings about Pittsburgh neighborhoods, in a second, revised edition; the forthcoming Pittsburgh Prays: Thirty-Six Houses of Worship, a close examination of the scope of the Pittsburgh religious experience; Reckoning with Rainbows: The History of The Pressley Ridge Schools; and A Century of Caring: The History of Holy Family Institute. Having written countless newspaper and magazine articles on a wide variety of subjects, he also teaches English and writing at Chatham University, Point Park University, and the University of Pittsburgh.